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Oct 20, 2011 at 5:42 pm #1793183
Or Tony Dong?
High School English teacher (sorry to break up the run of accountants and enginerds.)
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm #1793187Full time student in biology and soccer coach to pay the rent
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:49 pm #1793188David & Peter,
Love the suggestions, but I am thinking of going retro-classic for my stage name.
Long Duck Dong….do you remember which movie that was from?
-Tony
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:56 pm #1793191Sixteen candles! What do I win?
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:13 pm #1793194Nice recall Ike !!!.
Brad
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:16 pm #1793195Financial Associate, but former Retail Store Manager.
DuaneOct 20, 2011 at 6:19 pm #1793197Bay Area Sales Rep for Motorola Two-Way Radios, "Walkie Talkies", Wireless Voice & Data
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:25 pm #1793198it's right under my name :)
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:26 pm #1793199Automotive technician/Classic car mechanic.
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:32 pm #1793202If you can call it a profession…Grounds department for a local school district. I work outdoors so I may as well play there too :D
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm #1793203I'm an IT security consultant and I have to travel around the east coast to design and implement security strategies and architecture.
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm #1793204I hate to even admit I'm an engineer now.
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:35 pm #1793205Lineman for a So-Cal utility, currently providing in house third party consulting for a large transmission project.
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:36 pm #1793206Hmmm, a group of people who will weigh everything in their pack to the smallest part of a gram, put it all in a spreadsheet, and seriously use things like titanium potty trowels?
Yes, it is another episode of Nerds on Parade!
Oct 20, 2011 at 6:55 pm #1793210What do you win?
A date with Molly Ringwald. A little older now but the hair is still red.
Oct 20, 2011 at 7:06 pm #1793213Aerospace scientist, so yeah guilty as charged…
Oct 20, 2011 at 7:22 pm #1793215Before I discovered long distance hiking I was a responsible, upstanding, new construction plumber.
I have also been a forklift mechanic, commercial photo lab printer, garbage truck driver, centerless grinder operator, delivery driver, automotive drive shaft fabricator/ welder, and janitor.
I once worked at Mc Donalds just to save money up to move away with a girl.
I do well with any job, and particularly well in mechanical jobs.
The main issue i have is that I master the job and just get bored to tears.
About 2 years is as long as i can stand the pretense of secondary aims.
Although I did the plumbing thing for over 10 years until the big crash.
I am blue collar working trash.
Currently i am cleaning carpets for a major company and dreaming of the day i can save up enough to hike a long trail once again.
The PCT cost me 5 grand, the CDT about the same, the AT a little less. Basically my goal in life at this moment is to scrape another 5 grand together and take another long walk.
None of this is real. The job, the car, the bills.
Only what happens while walking is real.Oct 20, 2011 at 7:35 pm #1793224Did spend 7 yrs in the army as an imagery analyst spying on other countries, shhhhhhh! After that got into the IT field and I'm now a SQL server and oracle database administrator for a large university here in pittsburgh pa. I'm jealous of anyone who works outdoors for a living
Oct 20, 2011 at 7:42 pm #1793228I / E
a.k.a. Instrument Technician / Electrician in a manufacturing plant.
It pays the bills so I can play in the hills. ;-)
Party On,
Newton
Oct 20, 2011 at 7:49 pm #1793233Used to be engineer
Now, just a bum : )
Oct 20, 2011 at 8:37 pm #1793251Museum Curator and Metal Artist
Oct 20, 2011 at 9:01 pm #1793254I think I'm breaking a major trend here, but I'm a full time student double majoring in Classical Studies and Molecular Biology with the hopes of going to medical school. I'm also currently for in a lab focusing on diabetes and obesity research.
Oct 20, 2011 at 9:13 pm #1793257I spent most of the last decade carrying heavy packs for a living. Had not thought about the irony so much until this thread appeared.
As of the last year though, even further from being a accountant or engineer, I'm a full time dad with two very small hiking partners.
The expedition Cook is in there, honest…
Oct 20, 2011 at 9:15 pm #1793258Actually hired gun, when I think about semi-seriously..
Oct 20, 2011 at 9:21 pm #1793262Attorney. Father's a software engineer though, so its in the family.
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